Do you keep copypasta on your computer? It’s that bit of tasty text you keep ready to paste in any relevant email or Facebook post. Grant has a great one for language lovers, based on eggcorns, those words or phrases that get switched to things that sound the same. Mustard up all the strength you can, it’s a doggy dog world out there! This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Copypasta”
There’s a little bit of copypasta that’s been making the rounds online that I want to share with you.
Copypasta?
Copypasta.
This is a batch of text that you just save on your computer, maybe with a keyboard command attached to it.
And any time you’re in a discussion thread where that topic is being discussed, you just paste it right in.
So let’s say that you have particular political views, and every time your opponents speak, you just paste it in.
That’s copypasta.
But sometimes copypasta is a joke or some kind of little funny ditty or some kind of image even, just a thing that you just constantly want to share.
And this one is linguistic.
It’s a long paragraph of egg corns all put together in a really awkward sounding phrase.
Remember what an egg corn is, right?
Oh, sure.
Yeah, something that sounds like something else, like spreading like wildflowers.
Yes, exactly.
So I’m not going to read the whole thing.
We’ll post the copypasta online.
Okay, and copypasta is like spelled like the food?
Yes, copypasta.
And it’s a playoff of copy and paste.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
All right.
So here’s just one line.
Mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there.
It is a doggy dog world.
And make my words.
When you get down to brass stacks, it doesn’t take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once.
I love this stuff.
And this last, the last sentence of this.
You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error, but I swear on my mother’s mating name, that when you put the petal to the metal, you will pass with flying carpets like it is a peach of cake.
